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re: SEC football Attendance is dropping... how do we stop the bleeding
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:15 pm to weagle99
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:15 pm to weagle99
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It is time for us all to come to grips with the fact that the stadium crowd is mainly only important now to provide a backdrop for the TV broadcast.
Oh I agree. But that is a huge reason why actual attendance is down
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Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:17 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
quote:Well we know that ain't gonna happen. Then they won't offer up huge tv contracts so we can pay our coach's more money than any human is worth.
. Get rid of TV timeouts
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:18 pm to Jjdoc
More Paul Finebaum on the conference network....let him commentate the games, and do halftime analysis, and more people will attend football games....
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:19 pm to Crimson
quote:look man.. that Sandstorm composer has kids to feed too
Surprised no one has mentioned the annoying piped in stadium music. Always rap crap. Every spare second has to have noise.
Now get off my lawn.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:19 pm to Jjdoc
Start cracking down on cheating. Then the recruits spread back out like they were in the early 2000's and more teams become more competitive. Then attendence will go back up at all schools that become more competitive.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:21 pm to Rabern57
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:22 pm to makersmark1
Back in the 50's with two way players and freshmen were ineligible I don't think there was a set number of scholarships.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:25 pm to BowlJackson
Football is a dying sport. It's mainly because of CTE. Parents aren't letting their kids play.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:32 pm to Jjdoc
cut the scholarship limit to 65 and there would be a good number of players that would have to play some both ways.
In todays game that would be a problem. From a speed of the game to the size of some of the players. Injuries would probably go up.
Towards the end of season walkons would get some serious playing time due to injuries. Look at state last year. They were down to playing some third string DB. Cut the limit to 65 and you're out of scholarship DBs with those numbers.
Have you given and thought to individual numbers to each position group with a 65 man roster?
In todays game that would be a problem. From a speed of the game to the size of some of the players. Injuries would probably go up.
Towards the end of season walkons would get some serious playing time due to injuries. Look at state last year. They were down to playing some third string DB. Cut the limit to 65 and you're out of scholarship DBs with those numbers.
Have you given and thought to individual numbers to each position group with a 65 man roster?
Posted on 7/5/19 at 10:47 pm to Jjdoc
Its very simple: increase the student allocation.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 11:09 pm to MykTide
We all know why you are against this idea.
Posted on 7/5/19 at 11:50 pm to Jjdoc
How to fix it?
Lower ticket prices. If you could go to the stadium, and get a seat for $10, tons of people would show up.
$50-70 a seat? No way.
People will pay the price for a premiere matchup, but not for some uncompetitive game
Idk why it’s so complicated. If nobody will show up to NFL games at $100 a seat, lower it to $30 and you’ll have a full stadium
Lower ticket prices. If you could go to the stadium, and get a seat for $10, tons of people would show up.
$50-70 a seat? No way.
People will pay the price for a premiere matchup, but not for some uncompetitive game
Idk why it’s so complicated. If nobody will show up to NFL games at $100 a seat, lower it to $30 and you’ll have a full stadium
Posted on 7/5/19 at 11:56 pm to 167back
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cut the scholarship limit to 65 and there would be a good number of players that would have to play some both ways.
So the NFL can make it on a 46 man dress out, but the NCAA can't make it on 65...
Not buying that.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 12:03 am to Jjdoc
Ticket prices are outrageous and the food/beer is free at home in the air conditioning.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 12:36 am to Jjdoc
It's not going to improve. People are not going to spend the money for the stadium experience with the home TV experience improving.
Sports in general is destroying itself with the exorbitant money and costs to attend live events.
You will start to see more football programs eliminated starting with the smaller colleges and then working itself up. Enjoy all the college sports you can for as long as it lasts.
Sports in general is destroying itself with the exorbitant money and costs to attend live events.
You will start to see more football programs eliminated starting with the smaller colleges and then working itself up. Enjoy all the college sports you can for as long as it lasts.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 12:39 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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You will start to see more football programs eliminated starting with the smaller colleges and then working itself up. Enjoy all the college sports you can for as long as it lasts.
I agreed until you got here. Most schools have never made money off football, so there is no change for anyone but most P5 schools.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 1:04 am to Jjdoc
I think the interesting thing to me is that concerts seem to be high but sports aren't the same.
Idk what the answer is. But it's not working.
Idk what the answer is. But it's not working.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 1:28 am to Jjdoc
How many NFL teams start the season with the same 46 man roster that they finish with?
NFL teams can add players to the roster all season long. Can't do that in college.
NFL teams can add players to the roster all season long. Can't do that in college.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 3:38 am to Rabern57
Fans of teams like Alabama and LSU that recruit nothing but 4 or 5 star players are always going to be against this idea. They hoard the talent and it is what it is. Cutting scholarships and giving those cut scholarships to baseball players is a no brainer but won't happen because it will be called racist by people who are idiots and the power programs don't want it because it will negatively impact their rosters. There is absolutely no reason to have 85 scholarship football players on a team if your goal is to have competitive balance and increase interest in the sport nationwide. Increasing the playoff from 4 to 8 or 16 would also help a ton. I can tell you which 6 teams have a chance to make the playoff today and we are a month away from the season starting. How is that any fun for anyone outside of those 6 teams?
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:27 am to 167back
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How many NFL teams start the season with the same 46 man roster that they finish with?
NFL teams can add players to the roster all season long. Can't do that in college.
I think you are beating up a strawman.
But I'll bite. Show me some numbers.
Give me the average number of guys who were on the roster of an NFL team on opening day - who were still on it as of the last game.
And show me the outliers - like the team that had the lowest number of opening day players at the end.
I don't think it is what you are intimating.
Something that hasn't been mentioned yet is that NFL rosters used to be a lot smaller - with 14 regular season games. Not sure when they expanded but the Packers had like a 40 man roster for Super Bowls I and II.
Also want to say that pro players don't seem to have as many injury problems as college teams. They don't draft injury prone players? Don't keep them on the roster if they are prone to getting hurt?
Dunno, but the NFL is definitely more strenuous and physical than college ball, so that doesn't make sense to me otherwise.
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